The lid opens with a soft "click," and a sweet, fruity note of ripe strawberry fills the air—the same pink pastille, molded in the same bronze molds for over a century, that gently melts on the tongue.

In Turin, the afternoon slows down around 4 PM. You stop in a small shop with a dark wooden counter, and leave with a tin of pastilles slipped into your pocket—not for sustenance, but to prolong the moment just a little longer.

This is the feeling Leone has been crafting since 1857, when Luigi Leone opened his first artisanal confectionery in Alba, in the Piedmont hills. The Strawberry pastilles, like all Leone creations, are still made today in traditional bronze molds, faithful to the original recipe—a savoir-faire that few confectioners have kept intact. They evoke that sweet, slightly mischievous taste of childhood, of candies carefully kept in the bottom of your pocket.

You don't buy it to satisfy hunger. You buy it to rediscover a bit of lightness—the simple, uncomplicated pleasure of a candy that brings a smile, for no particular reason. To have it with you, in a bag or a desk drawer, and instantly rediscover that fruity, gourmet taste that exists nowhere else.

Wherever you are in Canada, between meetings and under a grey sky, you open the tin. And as the pastille melts, you're not quite here anymore—you're back to that age when a simple candy was enough to brighten an entire day.

Why our customers love them

• An artisanal recipe passed down continuously since 1857
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